Amazing Facts About Frankie Muniz

The first episode of the show picked up the largest audience for a Fox debut since The Simpsons. The premiere episode was watched by 23 million people and the second episode by 26 million. Pretty impressive for a lead actor aged 13.

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Frankie's fave EVER MITM moment is when he tried to make a strike during bowling, but missed every single pin. Why? Because he managed to *actually* miss every single pin, in one take, with no special effects, when shooting the scene. Amazing.

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MITM's main character was originally written to be nine years old, so 13 year-old Frankie Muniz thought he'd fluffed his first audition. The producers actually liked Frankie so much they made Malcolm older, so he could take the role. Yay!

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Frankie Muniz appeared in Sabrina The Teenage Witch when he was super young. Bet you'd never noticed that before! He starred alongside Hallie Todd (Marigold, Hilda and Zelda's cousin), who also played Jo McGuire in Lizzie McGuire!

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WHICH FRANKIE ALSO STARRED IN. He played himself, coming to Lizzie's town to shoot a movie.

He's an insanely good race car driver. In 2004 he ran the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in Long Beach as a celebrity participant, finishing 7th - by 2006 he'd signed a two-year deal with Jensen Motorsport as a driver.

On November 30, 2012, Muniz was hospitalised after having a "mini stroke", also described as a transient ischemic attack, and spoke about the experience on US TV show Katie. He suffered a second attack a year later, in November 2013.

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He has a hairless pet rat. Ew.

Frankie Muniz via Twitter

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He was in a Got Milk? ad. SO CUTE.

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